by Sarah Lynch, Special for USA TODAY

by Sarah Lynch, Special for USA TODAY

CAIRO - As protests began again Tuesday, the first outsider allowed to see deposed president Mohammed Morsi said he is doing fine and is being well cared for at a military facility.

Catherine Ashton, foreign policy chief for the European Union, met with Morsi on Monday night after she was taken by military helicopter to a facility whose location she did not know.

In a news conference Tuesday that aired on Egyptian television, Ashton said Morsi, who has been detained for weeks at an undisclosed location, had access to newspapers and television and had with him a couple of his aides.

She said their conversation was frank, friendly and open, but she did not provide details about what the two discussed.

"I also told him in my two-hour conversation that I was not going to represent his views because in the circumstances he cannot correct me if I do it wrongly," she said.

It was the first time Morsi met with a non-Egyptian official since his ouster July 3.

Ashton said meeting Morsi was a condition of her visit to Cairo, which began Monday and was the second to the capital this month. She met with officials including interim Prime Minister Adly Mansour and Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who forced Morsi out of power.

Tuesday, she stressed that Egypt needs to resolve the political crisis on its own.

"I am not here to ask people to do things," she said. "I am here to find out where the common ground might be, the confidence-building measures could be, that can help everybody move forward."

A Muslim Brotherhood-led coalition called for a fresh wave of protests Tuesday, which kicked off in the afternoon, to rally against the military coup and condemn weekend deaths, which Morsi's supporters blame on security forces.

Demonstrators flowed into a rally outside Rabaa Al Adawiya Mosque, where a sit-in has continued for more than a month. The protest was likely to grow into the evening.

"The violence will continue if we don't protest it through demonstrations, peaceful demonstrations," said Emad Mohammad Sayeed, an English teacher.

An old, recorded speech by Morsi blared through speakers and chants filled the air as people yelled, "Morsi is our president!" On the rally's main stage, Brotherhood leader Safwat Hegazy read a list of the people killed, and each name was followed by the crowd responding with "Allahu Akbar!"

Protesters near the mosque held graphic images of those who died in Saturday's violence, rallying on the site where many were killed. Blood still stained the pavement.

"Sisi is a killer," said Mohammad Gaffer, 40, referring to the nation's army chief. "We are pro-democracy and anti-coup and believe in democracy even after what happened."

Fatma Zain, 35, and her mother held up copies of the Quran.

"These are our only weapons - only our Quran," Zain said. "We came to protest the police and the killings."

Dozens of pro-Morsi protesters were killed in clashes over the weekend with security forces near a sit-in outside Rabaa Al Adawiya Mosque in the capital's Nasr City.

"The Pro-Legitimacy, Anti-Coup National Alliance calls on the masses of the Egyptian people to rise in anger, but in peaceful protest, against the spilling of blood of the innocent unarmed Egyptians," the alliance said in a statement.

Human Rights Watch said many of the protesters killed were shot in the chest or the head. Egypt's Interior Ministry denied that authorities fired and said they used only tear gas to remove Morsi supporters who tried to block a main road and clashed with residents.

"I expect more violence," said Ashraf El Sherif, a political science lecturer at the American University in Cairo, noting that there may be clashes between protesters and police and also between demonstrators and residents in neighborhoods where marches take place.

He said the Brotherhood continues protests to achieve two objectives: to protect and defend itself against more arrests and to maintain a crisis situation in hopes that the political game might tilt or change in its favor.